Idioms - Photoshop Contest [34 entries]

Up the wooden hill Picture

Winning entry, with a score of:
62%
Contest goal:

An idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning and that is comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression. An idiom is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made.

There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in American English. Your goal in this contest is to design a visual of an idiomatic expression. For example for "pigheaded", you can make a man with a pig's head. You can find a list of idioms HERE
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Suggested by: Lamantine

hereisanoop: interesting... ( 5 years and 3448 days ago )
jawshoewhah: So basically we are converting an ironic expression and turning it into a literal visual? ( 5 years and 3444 days ago )
jawshoewhah: This is a lot like the living puns contest ( 5 years and 3444 days ago )

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Up the wooden hill - created by phubar


Up the wooden hill
Favs: 7SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 1/34Score: 62% (35)20890 views

Up the wooden hill -
When you go up the wooden hill, you go up the stairs to bed.

Thanks to michelsick for the bed.
Thanks to Chemtec for the sky.
Thanks to dlritter for the tree.
Thanks to somadjinn for the wood 1.
Thanks to kovic for the wood 2. (5 years and 3441 days ago)

5 Sources:


On the Horns of a Dilema - created by IDt8r


On the Horns of a Dilema
Favs: 2SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 2/34Score: 58.3% (30)17037 views

Thanks to Ben Clifford, atomicjeep, TrombaMarina, Richard Forward, estherase, Gustavo Vara, bthomso (5 years and 3445 days ago)

8 Sources:


Bar Fly - created by lchappell


Bar Fly
Favs: 0SBS: n/aHi-resRank: 3/34Score: 58.2% (25)17979 views

Thanks hiversansneige
Thanks Edwin Land (5 years and 3448 days ago)

2 Sources:


A Little Bird Told Me - created by fatz8016


A Little Bird Told Me
Favs: 0SBS: 7Hi-resRank: 4/34Score: 57.7% (20)16745 views

Credits to http://nikxstock.deviantart.com/ (5 years and 3442 days ago)

5 Sources:


When Pigs Fly - created by pearlie


When Pigs Fly
Favs: 2SBS: n/aHi-resRank: 5/34Score: 57.5% (15)23205 views

2 sources and basic photoshop - painted smoke (guassian blur) and added some motion blur to the jet as well as 2 lights glowing; curves adjustment & painted edges of sky.
Thanks to Pietri for the use of the French jet fighter image. (5 years and 3444 days ago)

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